The Real Housewives of New Jersey has a regularly appearing lesbian on the show named Rosie, sister to one of the housewives, Kathy. This week, the sisters will have a talk about why Rosie never came out to Kathy’s kids. There’s a clip over at The Huffington Post, where Rosie also talks about being gay in a big Italian family and her newfound TV fame. On coming out to the kids:

…to do it in front of the camera I thought it would be a good thing to show to viewers. If there’s people out there who are struggling like I did, why make them struggle so bad the way I did? It’ll help them to not keep it to themselves for such a long time, and to see my family’s reaction to it. “Oh, you know what, look at that! Their reaction was OK!” Maybe it’ll help somebody else out there, even people on the other end of it that are not the person who is gay — the other people who have to accept it and maybe don’t understand it.

It was a big step for me, to tell you the truth. I don’t go around with a poster on my back saying, “I’m gay!” If somebody asks me, I’ll tell them the truth; if not, I leave it alone. I don’t want there to be labels. So if anybody had a question in their mind, there’s no questions anymore.

I don’t watch the show, but I would for someone like Rosie, like this clip of her falling for a lovely lady.

Actress/singer Kat Graham is a huge LGBT ally and she took it one step further on The Ellen Show yesterday when she performed her single, “Put your Graffiti on Me,” and dedicated it to Jennifer Tyrell, the lesbian den mother who was kicked out of the Cub Scouts for being gay. Check out the performance and dedication below.